Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Christopher Lambert: Respect that luck
“If you’re lucky enough to be raised in a rich family, good. But learn how to respect that luck. It’s not a given, you know? It’s not like, ‘Well, it’s normal’. No, it’s not normal. It’s lucky.” —Christopher Lambert.
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Saint Teresa of Avila: Act of love
“Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.” —Saint Teresa of Avila.
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Mariah Carey: Never, never listen to anybody
“Never, never listen to anybody that try to discourage you.” —Mariah Carey.
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Simon Sinek: Fire in the belly
“What good is having a belly if there’s no fire in it. Wake up, drink your passion, light a match and get to work.” —Simon Sinek.
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Henri Delacroix: In terms of his language
“An individual’s experience is built entirely in terms of his language.”—Henri Delacroix.
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Sterling Hayden: Brainwashed
“We are brainwashed by our economic system until we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention from the sheer idiocy of the charade. The years thunder by. The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked in dust on the shelves of…
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Keira Knightley: You can’t fake warmth
“I don’t think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don’t think you can fake it.” —Keira Knightley.
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Simon Sinek: Do more
“Leadership is not a license to do less. Leadership is a responsibility to do more.” —Simon Sinek.
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Gloria Steinem: Law and justice
“Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.” —Gloria Steinem.
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Sarah Jessica Parker: So many roads
“So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.” —Sarah Jessica Parker.
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Simon Sinek: Surround yourself with those who do
“Avoid those who don’t and surround yourself with those who do.” —Simon Sinek.
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William Morris: Foundation of refinement
“Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.” — -William Morris.
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Wernher von Braun: Overwhelming paperwork
“We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.” —-Wernher von Braun.
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Ron Jaworski: You learn by mistakes
“You learn by mistakes. When you make those mistakes, you try not to make them the third time or the second time. You learn from them. Sometimes you learn the hard way. In football, if I held on to the ball too long, I got my butt kicked. You better make that decision quicker.” —Ron…
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Louis L’Amour: Miles covered
“Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.” —-Louis L’Amour.
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Marcel Marceau: Music provides power
“Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it’s music, not words, that provides power.” —Marcel Marceau.
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Johann Sebastian Bach: Industrious
“I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.” —Johann Sebastian Bach.
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William Hurt: Heroes
“Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.” —William Hurt.
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Simon Sinek: Optimism
“The primary ingredient for progress is optimism. The unwavering belief that something can be better is what drives the human race forward.” —Simon Sinek.
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Earl Warren: Subversion of liberties
“It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defense, we would sanction the subversion of one of those liberties which make the defense of our nation worthwhile.” —Earl Warren.
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Anonymous: Only three things matter
“In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.” ― Anonymous
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Bruce Willis: Big love of your life
“When you think about where are you going to find that big love of your life, you seldom think it’s someone you already know. You think it’s someone you’re yet to meet.” —Bruce Willis.
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Simon Sinek: Responsibiliy
“For an employee to take responsibility, they must first be given it.” —Simon Sinek.
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John Updike: Brutal facts of being a carnivore
“I’m somewhat shy about the brutal facts of being a carnivore. I don’t like meat to look like animals. I prefer it in the form of sausages, hamburger and meat loaf, far removed from the living thing.” —John Updike.
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John Updike: Dare to go it alone
“Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.” —John Updike.
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Simon Sinek: Constant education
“Leadership is not an expertise. Leadership is a constant education.” —Simon Sinek.
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Bayard Rustin: Dignity
“When an individual is protesting society’s refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.” —Bayard Rustin.
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Marilyn Monroe: Running away from myself
“I’ve spent most of my life running away from myself.” —Marilyn Monroe.
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Chester Bennington: Alone in a world, with millions of souls
“Alone in a world, with millions of souls, Walking in circles, Trapped in their dreams, Unhealthy,unclean walking in circles, Now do not disturb, Scream in silence, Everyone’s sleeping. —Chester Bennington.
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Kurt Cobain: If my eyes could show my soul
“If my eyes could show my soul, everyone would cry when they saw me smile.” —Kurt Cobain.
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Mac Miller: With a smile
“No matter where life takes me, find me with a smile Pursuit to be happy, only laughing like a child I never thought life would be this sweet It got me cheesin’ from cheek to cheek.” —Mac Miller.
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Anthony Bourdain: No final resting place of the mind
“Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom…is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.” —Anthony Bourdain.
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Chris Farley: Life on life’s terms
“I used to think that you could get to a level of success where the laws of the universe didn’t apply. But they do. It’s still life on life’s terms, not on movie-star terms. I still have to work at relationships. I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons.…
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Philip Seymour Hoffman: Success
“Success isn’t what makes you happy. It really isn’t. Success is doing what makes you happy and doing good work and hopefully having a fruitful life. If I’ve felt like I’ve done good work, that makes me happy. The success part of it is all gravy.” —Philip Seymour Hoffman.
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Keith O’Brien: Cross of Christ
“I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation, but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world, that you are trying to live…
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Simon Sinek: More opportunity
“There is more opportunity in leaving people wanting more than giving them so much they wish they had less.” —Simon Sinek.
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James Madison: Rights of the people
“I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the rights of the people by the gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” —James Madison.
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Ben Okri: Beware the stories you read or tell
“Beware the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.” —Ben Okri.
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Andrew Jackson: In error
“Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.” —Andrew Jackson.
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Michael Caine: Gangs
“What a lot of people don’t realize about gangs, in my opinion, is that a gang is not there to attack you. Eighty percent of the people in a gang are there to stop anyone from attacking them. You join a gang for protection, not to go out and hit someone.” —Michael Caine.
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William H Macy: He doesn’t care
“Oh yeah, that’s the Holy Grail, Pirates of the Caribbean. Johnny Depp, he’s the real deal, isn’t he? He doesn’t get the girl, and he doesn’t care.” —William H Macy.
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Simon Sinek: Invested
“When people are financially invested, they want a return. When people are emotionally invested, they want to contribute.” —Simon Sinek.
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Richard Steele: Whenever you commend
“Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.” —Richard Steele.
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Simon Sinek: Accountability versus blame
“Accountability is hard. Blame is easy. One builds trust, the other destroys it.” —Simon Sinek.
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Douglas Adams: Skewed
“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas-covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal, is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.” —Douglas Adams.
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Douglas Adams: Sincerity and integrity
“To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.” —-Douglas Adams.
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Simon Sinek: Good and great leaders
“Good leaders have the ability to inspire us in their lifetime. Great leaders have the ability to inspire us beyond their lifetime.” —Simon Sinek.
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H W Fowler: Direct, simple, brief, vigorous and lucid
“Anyone who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.” —-H.W. Fowler.
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Paul Haggis: Emotional medium
“Film is an emotional medium; it’s not a logical medium. It’s not an intellectual medium, so every decision you make as a filmmaker and an actor has to be emotional in some way, even in the rejection of logic.” —Paul Haggis.
